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Sep 14, 2026
Harry SinghGUEST
And it was the Sunday Times.
Harry SinghGUEST
It just happened to be the Sunday Times rich list on that week.
Harry SinghGUEST
So I read it.
Harry SinghGUEST
It was good fate.
Aaron BastaniGUEST
I don't want to increase taxes on headmasters and accountants and, you know, NHS consultants.
Aaron BastaniGUEST
I want the ultra-rich, the 200 wealthiest families on the Sunday Times Rich List, whose percentage of, of the overall national economy has gone from 6% to 20% in the last... well, since 1994, I want them to pay slightly more.
Aaron BastaniGUEST
I want to stop hurting and killing the middle class.
Aaron BastaniGUEST
I think probably everybody in this room agrees, we're killing the middle class in this country.
Andy CoulsonHOST
Steve then gave away almost her entire personal fortune.
Andy CoulsonHOST
She's the only person said to have fallen off the Sunday Times Rich List through generosity.
Andy CoulsonHOST
But so much of that life, she told me, led back to the train.
Stephanie ShirleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I remember the leaving Vienna because our parents, and there were obviously a station full of them, were not only crying, but they were sort of wailing, a, a noise I've never heard in, uh, any other situation.
Iain DaleHOST
It's from Oliver in Gloucester.
Iain DaleHOST
If one of Britain's biggest taxpayers is upping and leaving, does that show that there's no hope for this country's economy now? Now, the hedge fund billionaire, Chris Rockos, who was ranked third on the Sunday Times Rich List of Britain's biggest taxpayers last year, reportedly plans to open an office in Athens instead of being based here.
Iain DaleHOST
And he apparently pays 300 million pounds a year in tax.
Iain DaleHOST
Now, Martin, you're worth a few.
Martin SorrellPANELIST
It's the young people that are feeling that their careers are in jeopardy or their business in jeopardy.
Martin SorrellPANELIST
You know, somebody who has a business, let's say, making revenues of about 10 million pounds, uh profits of let's say a couple of million pounds where in a digital world where there is greater flexibility and where you can run a business from pretty much anywhere in the world the government really doesn't understand that where are you going to go are you going to stay here
Iain DaleHOST
the problem here is that if people like him are going and i mean there's lots of other examples that we can quote but i mean given that he's number three on the sunday times rich list if people like him go it's not just the tax revenues that we're missing out on It's people like him that are providing jobs.
Iain DaleHOST
Exactly.
Iain DaleHOST
It's from Oliver in Gloucester.
Iain DaleHOST
If one of Britain's biggest taxpayers is upping and leaving, does that show that there's no hope for this country's economy now? Now, the hedge fund billionaire, Chris Rockos, who was ranked third on the Sunday Times Rich List of Britain's biggest taxpayers last year, reportedly plans to open an office in Athens instead of being based here.
Iain DaleHOST
And he apparently pays 300 million pounds a year in tax.
Iain DaleHOST
Now, Martin, you're worth a few.
Martin SorrellGUEST
The government really doesn't understand that.
Martin SorrellGUEST
Where are you going to go? Are you going to stay here? But surely
Iain DaleHOST
the problem here is that if people like him are going, and I mean, there's lots of other examples that we can quote, but I mean, given that he's number three on the Sunday Times rich list, if people like him go, it's not just the tax revenues that we're missing out on.
Iain DaleHOST
it's people like him that are providing jobs exactly the the investing in the new businesses that create the jobs for younger people and if they all go somewhere else where are these jobs going to go the fundamental problem is what are we going
CaeminHOST
And they continued to buy other trophies, especially hotels, like in 2011, when they spent £700 million to buy Claridge's, the Connacht and the Berkeley hotels in London.
CaeminHOST
So by now, the twins were very, very well known publicly and they had become regulars in the Sunday Times Rich List.
CaeminHOST
And look, I know I mentioned the Sunday Times Rich List a lot.
CaeminHOST
It's because when I was growing up, I used to love it.
CaeminHOST
I think it might have been one of the drivers that got me interested in business because I just loved reading about how the people on these lists made their money, the businesses they were involved in, and the stories and an awful lot of the time, the scandals and the strategies behind these businesses.